After Effects CC 2019 Essential Training: The Basics

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10/15/2018

If you need to learn Adobe After Effects for the first time, it helps to break the program down to the basics. This course is designed to help absolute beginners understand the fundamental concepts and techniques that make After Effects such a powerful motion graphics and compositing application. It's a big-picture type of training course, designed to inform and inspire. In chapter one, instructor Mark Christiansen covers the six foundations of After Effects CC: building compositions, working with layers, animating with the Timeline, adding effects, designing in 3D, and rendering. The second chapter presents a short motion project that shows how all the tools come together in a real-world workflow.

Topics include:

After Effects and industry terminology

Six foundations of After Effects

Setting up a composition

Working with layers

Animating compositions

Applying effects, including lights

Working in 3D

Rendering projects

Skill Level Beginner

2h 3m

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- [Mark] Have you ever heard amazing thingsabout what can be done with Adobe After Effects,only to open the application and feel overwhelmed,barely even knowing where to get started?Or maybe you've tried tutorialsto do something very specific,and quickly found yourself in the weedsof individual steps, lacking the bigger pictureof how to even think in After Effects.Maybe you're not sure what the application even does,or conversely, maybe it's been a top resolutionfor the past several years to finally learn After Effects.

If any of these statements sounds even remotely true,this course is designed with you in mind.Once you've completed it,you'll be ready to move on to a whole worldof other After Effects training right here on this site.You'll have a better understandingwhere After Effects is the right toolfor what you wanna create,and how to go about learning to specializeon what interests you the most.Whether you just wanna know how the application worksso you can collaborate with an After Effects artist,or if you're already making videos and animationsand believe they would be betterif you knew this tool set,my goal is for you to be comfortablechoosing the path that is right for you.

As you begin to specialize more,you'll find out more about where you're capableof doing your best work.If you're able to keep looping the same two secondsof motion for as long as it takesfor it to look right, you're an animator.If you're fascinated watching captivating original designsunfold over time, you sound like a motion designer.Or, if you're a storyteller who wants to create scenesthat you could never capture on camerathe way you want them to look,you'll want to focus on visual effects.After Effects is among the best toolson the planet for animation and motion graphics and effects,so if you're ready to learn more, let's jump in.